Thoroughly revised for its Third Edition, this volume is the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary text on genitourinary cancers. This edition has two new editors—Frans M.J. Debruyne and W. Marston Linehan—and more than 50% new contributors. Seventeen new chapters cover familial prostate cancer, biology of bone metastases, molecular pathology and biologic determinants, PSA and related kallikreins, needle biopsy, laparoscopic surgical procedures, 3D conformal radiotherapy, hormones and radiotherapy, integration of chemotherapy and other modalities, quality of life after treatment of localized prostate cancer, management of rising PSA after local therapy, the role of surgery in advanced bladder cancer, post-chemotherapy node dissections and resection of metastatic disease, and stem cell transplantation.
This third edition of the Comprehensive Textbook of Genitourinary Oncology is arriving almost 10 years after its first edition published in 1996, thus testifying to the continued need for a вÐÑcomprehensiveвÐÑ text in this particular area of oncology. The first edition was managed by the person who is also the current edition's Senior Executive Editor, Jonathan W. Pine, Jr., who has shared our vision for the book and who has patiently guided us to address the ongoing need for it over the past 10 years. Thank you, Jonathan!